Tag Archives: Louis Pasteur

White House Honey Porter

Ingredients 2 (3.3 lb) cans light unhopped malt extract 3/4 lb Munich Malt (cracked) 1 lb crystal 20 malt (cracked) 6 oz black malt (cracked) 3 oz chocolate malt (cracked) 1 lb White House Honey 10 HBUs bittering hops 1/2 oz Hallertaur Aroma hops 1 pkg Nottingham dry yeast 3/4 cup corn sugar for bottling Directions In a 6 qt …

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Cal Lord: Bill Nye should rethink creationism stance

Bill Nye

“There are only two possibilities as to how life arose. One is spontaneous generation arising to evolution; the other is a supernatural creative act of God. There is no third possibility. Spontaneous generation, that life arose from non-living matter was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others. That leaves us with the only possible conclusion that life …

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At Harlem Hospital, Murals Get a New Life

Louis Pasteur in Harlem Hospital Mural

Mr. Alston also included the microbiologist Louis Pasteur and a surgeon modeled after Louis T. Wright, the first African-American physician appointed to the hospital and a friend of the artist. Read the full article…

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Challenge has changed the world of bread

..innovations in bread-making are rare. In fact, nothing much has changed in the 6,000-year-old process since Louis Pasteur made the commercial production of yeast possible in 1859. Read the full article…

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The 20 best inventions in food history

Beer Pasteurization Equipment

Frenchman Louis Pasteur’s name will live on as long as there is milk or beer. Drinking milk used to be like Russian roulette, you never knew when you get some random disease and die. Pasteur’s process of heating up and immediately cooling liquids made the world a safer (and tastier) place. Read the full article…

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The Question of Spontaneous Generation

Redi's Experiment

From Louis Pasteur: His Life and Labours by René Vallery-Radot, 1885 ‘All dry bodies,’ said Aristotle, ‘which become damp, and all damp bodies which are dried, engender animal life.’ Bees, according to Virgil, are produced from the corrupted entrails of a young bull. At the time of Louis XIV, we were hardly more advanced. A celebrated alchemist doctor, Van Helmont, …

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Pasteur and Lister Revolutionize Medicine

Joseph Lister

Joseph Lister was a British surgeon that pioneered the idea of sterile surgery, based on the discoveries of Louis Pasteur and his investigation of microbes as described in the germ theory. The idea that microbes played a key role in causing infection, or “putrefaction” as Pasteur referred to it, was still not widely accepted in the medical world and the …

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Finnish Scientists Discover Vaccine To Eliminate Allergies

Pasteur Cartoon Rabies Vaccine

Much like Louis Pasteur, through experiments, human error and learning as you go, discovered a vaccine that saved millions, Rouvinen and his team say they discovered this vaccine through brilliant science and hard work. In other words, they aren’t sure, but just like all good scientists committed to finding a cure for a disease, they found a way. Read the …

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uOttawa Doctor Solves Louis Pasteur Riddle

University of Ottowa

Dr. Stephen Lee, a professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Ottawa, has made a breakthrough that answers a question Louis Pasteur and countless others have struggled with for 150 years: “How do bodily cells function when we are at a high altitude where the air contains little oxygen?” Read the full article…

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Critical Thinking and the Scientific Process First—Humanities Later

Louis Pasteur Statue - Cours St Mauris

If luck favors the prepared mind, as Louis Pasteur is credited with saying, we’re in danger of becoming a very unlucky nation. Little of the material taught in schools today is relevant to the future. Consider all the science and economics that has been updated, the shifting theories of psychology, the programming languages, political theories, and even how many planets …

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